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gizmomkr wrote:

I was going to try a "flip" camera, but I dont think any of the flip series has an external mic. Kodak however makes the Zi8, and it does have an external mic jack.

Has anyone had any luck with any of the "pocket" cameras ?

Some others hear last year had good success with a Flip. I got one to try this year (love it already). Here is somebody's from last year:
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GaryBo wrote:

The video starts out with a zoom shot of the Circus Circus Casino, which is about 5 miles (as the crow flies) from me. The flare (light) also at the start is auto headlights coming towards me and glaring in the camera.
The rest of the video is shot across the street from some of the houses in my neighborhood. Only house
porch lights and yard lampposts are on. There are no Street Lights, and no moon. Shot about 7PM


http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee309/GaryBo42/?action=view&current=MOV001mp4video.mp4


That is one hell of a zoom!!!!! For what I'm wanting to do, THIS might be my camera! Thanks so much for sharing that video. And can I come visit you in Vegas :D
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Bob Wingert Member

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Damn Todd! I'm more impressed with the fireworks than the camera!! You pyro you! HAAH. How about you come to beautiful Charleston SC next year and help me set up a display like that!!!!

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It is not the hardware that determines the how good the output is, it is the user... Some of the best pictures in the world are taken on old equipment.

All this talk about cameras yet no one has actually said "How do you take video's of Christmas lights"

I do not care what camera you have if you do not understand how a camera measures light you will never take good videos.

I have been taking videos of Christmas lights and fireworks (Fireworks shooter and pioneer of indoor fireworks way back in the 70's)...

http://flashcannon.com/

The light meter on a camera takes the whole image and averages the light for the entire image.... If you have an all black sky and tiny lights the camera turns up the gain to try to brighten up the large dark area. By doing so the lights get over exposed. That is why colored Christmas lights come out white... The gain has blown out the colors.... So what you need to do is turn down the gain to about -3... Experiment with your own camera... -2 to -3 is about right.

Next shoot the video with the auto focus OFF! The lights flashing and the darkness will drive your auto focus nuts.... Use the zoom very little or best not at all.... Set up the camera on a tripod. Video the entire show from center stage, all the songs at one time... Then move the camera to the left or right and tape the entire show. Repeat on the other side.... Now you will be able to splice in the 3 camera shots together for each song and it looks like you had 3 cameras running.... Take your audio track you sequenced the song to and lay it down as your master audio track.... Bang you now have a professional looking video....

Here is a video of the finished product....

http://vimeo.com/8563881

I use Adobe CS4 Production Suite for all my post production... One last thing I do is to turn up the color saturation in post production to give the colors a final punch....

I hope I was able to help...

Mel

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I use Adobe CS4 Production Suite for all my post production.


Sound advice Mel...

but I seriously doubt that most of us have a $1600 Editing Software Package to go along with our $200 Camcorder... :D
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Plunged today into Target & got the Kodak Zi8. Charging it up now, will try and test it tonight on the Halloween display. Depends on how much free time I have before the NYY game! I will post as soon as its done though

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Plunged today into Target & got the Kodak Zi8. Charging it up now, will try and test it tonight on the Halloween display. Depends on how much free time I have before the NYY game! I will post as soon as its done though

Why watch NYY lose?

That will give you 9 innings of free time!!!
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pokrplr wrote:
Plunged today into Target & got the Kodak Zi8. Charging it up now, will try and test it tonight on the Halloween display. Depends on how much free time I have before the NYY game! I will post as soon as its done though

Why watch NYY lose?

That will give you 9 innings of free time!!!


But its October baseball ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_postseason :P:P:P

Ichhhhhhhhiroooo......Ichhhhirrrroooooooo....Ichirooooooooo :P
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pokrplr wrote:

Ichhhhhhhhiroooo......Ichhhhirrrroooooooo....Ichirooooooooo :P


Yeah...I wish....

They'll never have a better chance than the season they won 116 games with Ichiro...
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melwelch wrote:

All this talk about cameras yet no one has actually said "How do you take video's of
Here is a video of the finished product....

http://vimeo.com/8563881

I use Adobe CS4 Production Suite for all my post production... One last thing I do is to turn up the color saturation in post production to give the colors a final punch....

I hope I was able to help...

Mel

hijacked.gif Mel, after watching your video, (great display by the way, I love the CCR star ) I have to know what you are using for wrapping the front porch posts?
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Thanks for the invite. I dont know that I could make that one. I would be more than willing though to share the program sequence. This is a 5000 shot show of 3,4, 5, 6 inch fireworks that I manual fire over 45 minutes. I do have a lot of help and can not take all of the credit. It has been a lot of fun over the years. It does not seem to matter weather it is a 10,000 or 5,000 shot show most people do not know the difference. They just enjoy it.

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Tim Herberger wrote:

melwelch wrote:
All this talk about cameras yet no one has actually said "How do you take video's of
Here is a video of the finished product....

http://vimeo.com/8563881

I use Adobe CS4 Production Suite for all my post production... One last thing I do is to turn up the color saturation in post production to give the colors a final punch....

I hope I was able to help...

Mel

hijacked.gif Mel, after watching your video, (great display by the way, I love the CCR star ) I have to know what you are using for wrapping the front porch posts?

It is just rope lights one Red one Green and one Blue on each post
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toddmoon wrote:

Thanks for the invite. I dont know that I could make that one. I would be more than willing though to share the program sequence. This is a 5000 shot show of 3,4, 5, 6 inch fireworks that I manual fire over 45 minutes. I do have a lot of help and can not take all of the credit. It has been a lot of fun over the years. It does not seem to matter weather it is a 10,000 or 5,000 shot show most people do not know the difference. They just enjoy it.


toddmon here is one of my show I shot way back in the mid 70's.... $10,000 in fireworks in 60 sec.... lol

http://rdu.net/flashcannon/MWProductions/OneMinShow.html
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